A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.